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Friar Zucchini
Aug 6, 2010

With Eggplant Wizard's blessing, I present to you a thread in which you will explain (and probably argue at great length about) what the gently caress these things mean.

Some of them I can understand just fine: :aaa: Amazement. Pretty simple. There's other stuff like :eng101: that I gather has some kind of backstory with it but I get the general idea: academic smartness and poo poo. I love its variants too, like :pseudo: and :dawkins101:.

Then there's some stuff that I completely don't understand. Take this guy for example: :spergin: he seems like a pretty nice guy, right? What's he ever done to you to make you want to use him as the poster-child of asperger's? And what the gently caress is :itjb:?

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Friar Zucchini
Aug 6, 2010

Yo so what happened to the :science: variant where he's getting electrocuted?

Friar Zucchini
Aug 6, 2010

Hey so whatever happened to that :science: variant where it's like :pseudo: but he's electrocuting himself? Or was that just a gif someone made? Haven't seen it in ages.

edit: Found it. Dug up some others too.

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Friar Zucchini
Aug 6, 2010

Choco1980 posted:

I prefer :confuoot: myself. "Uh...yay I guess??"

If only emotes would show up in thread titles. (ahem)

Friar Zucchini
Aug 6, 2010

:cawg: Just something about that one...


Also why the gently caress is it "cawg"? The gently caress does that even mean

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Friar Zucchini
Aug 6, 2010

Flagrant Abuse posted:

It's cackling aloud with gusto according to the mouseover text.
What mouseover text are you looking at? Mine's just "cawg" with :'s and no other text or explanation.

edit: :aaa: Well gently caress me sideways. Mouseover text in the smiley list thing, not in an actual forums post.







How the gently caress did I not already figure this out, I'm the loving OP of a thread about smilies. This leads to so many more questions.... Who is Ant Trap Anthony? "We have eternity to know your flesh"? :psypop:

At least I understand the one for :hist101:.

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